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Spotlight On… Clydebank Local History Society
Clydebank Local History Society was formed in 1977, thanks to the energy of a group of Clydebank local historians, led by the late Wallace McIntyre. Elizabeth Pitts is the current Chair. The local area of West Dunbartonshire has an outstanding and co
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Two rare needlework samplers thought to have been embroidered by Robert Burns’ mother and sister have been returned to the poet’s birthplace, with the support of a NationalTrust for Scotland (NTS) donor based in the USA. The two samplers, one attribu
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DR BLAIR and the ELEPHANT PART 1
On Saturday 27 April 1706, an elephant died beside the road that leads from Broughty Ferry to Dundee. Accompanied by its keeper, it had been on the march from the northeast of Scotland, when it collapsed from exhaustion. A mature elephant being a har

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